"Sit tight and hold on, ladies. I'm about to speed up."
Alex said, checking the current speed, which was only a little over 200. Was Dvalin not as fast as he imagined? It would be easy to catch up.
Three hundred, five hundred, six hundred.
Alright, let me correct myself, Dvalin was flying quite fast.
During this time, Lumine wasn't idle, continuously shooting at Dvalin ahead.
Aerial bullet hell was still fun; Lumine hadn't played like this in a while.
Soon, Alex drove Baron Bunny to the skies above Dvalin's back.
He stuck to Dvalin, who couldn't shake him off no matter how much he accelerated. Even a straight sprint high into the sky didn't work.
After all, this wasn't Alex controlling it, but the invincible heavy armor bunny puppet on auto-follow drive.
The mysterious voice, which was Venti, finally conceded and began to plead, "Uh, alright~ Please don't hurt Dvalin."
"Don't worry, I know. We're just going to remove the two poisoned blood clots from Dvalin's body." Alex nodded, then parked Baron Bunny on Dvalin's back.
"Wow, this is so cool! I can actually keep up with a gust dragon's speed and even park this vehicle on its body." Paimon exclaimed in surprise.
"Mhm, it's very fast. It's my first time riding such a fast mode of transportation too." Lumine nodded in agreement from the side.
"Alright, Lumine, first take this." Alex said, taking out a tear-shaped Crystalize and handing it to Lumine.
"This is..." Lumine looked at it; she was familiar with this item and had an identical one herself.
Paimon also looked over at this moment: "Isn't that the one Lumine saw before?"
Lumine then took out her own from her backpack. It wasn't an issue taking it out, but upon doing so, she discovered something.
At some unknown point, the originally red tear-shaped Crystalize had now turned a pure cyan-green, with the power of Anemo constantly swirling around it.
"That's right." Alex said, taking out the lyre of the heavens he had prepared earlier.
He swapped the one in his hand with Lumine's original, and the next moment, pressed it onto the lyre of the heavens.
The lyre of the heavens immediately absorbed the purified tear.
The originally gray, dull strings of the lyre of the heavens also turned cyan-green.
However, the energy on them was not yet concentrated enough.
Then Alex once again took the tear-shaped Crystalize that had just been warmed in his hand and also purified.
Mhm, the lyre of the heavens was a bit brighter now.
Venti, who had been following closely, also noticed the Traveler's difference: "Ehe~, to possess the power of purification, truly incredible."
"Mhm, do-re-mi-fa..." Alex tested the sound slightly, finding that it corresponded to different timbres.
The process of extracting the poisoned blood will be painful. Try to keep him from moving around, otherwise, it will be hard for us to stay steady.
The wind outside Baron Bunny is also very strong!
"Ahem, Dvalin, please listen to a... Song of the High Heavens." Alex said, beginning to play and sing.
"Twinkle~~ Twinkle~~ Little Star~~~"
"How I wonder what you are~"
What kind of Song of the High Heavens was this! Just singing about stars made it 'high'? Well, indeed, stars are certainly 'high heavens'.
Only Lumine clapped and cheered: "Yay, it's Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, I've heard this one!"
"Huh?" Paimon had a face full of question marks. This song felt… alright.
She hadn't expected both of them to have heard it. Why didn't she know or hear it before?
Alex and Lumine, however, were joyful, with Lumine even singing along to Alex's rhythm at the end.
"Awoo~" Dvalin cried out after the very short song ended.
It was too tormenting! How could he not shake off these two people above him? They were even singing to him. This song, it must be for teasing children.
Alright, Alex felt like he was almost casting pearls before a swine.
Fortunately, there were other listeners here, and most importantly, he hadn't expected Lumine to have heard it.
Anyway, no matter what, he had played a song, and the process was roughly the same: "Alright, I think he's appeased. While Dvalin's emotions are stable, let's quickly deal with the poisoned blood. Lumine, you also aim at the two brightly lit spots."
Alex then unleashed Baron Bunny's ultimate: "Baron Bunny, Ride On!"
Only then did the two experience that this flying motorcycle also had so many automatic floating cannons loaded.
Chug chug chug, occasionally it would do a spin, after all, spinning did a lot of DMG, but during the process, Paimon clung tightly to the small bunny puppet beside her; she was almost spun dizzy.
This Paimon was really weak, getting almost dizzy after just a few spins. How could she not adapt when she flew every day?
Lumine, on the other hand, was very calm, even seeing that Alex's spinning caused good DMG to the poisoned blood, and asked Alex to keep spinning.
"No, no, I can't spin anymore. If I spin more, I'll get dizzy too." At this point, the first poisoned blood clot was quickly cleared.
Alex, quick-witted, directly did a Turn around and take it out, collecting this poisoned blood shard.
Maybe it could be used as a material.
"Awooo~!!!" Dvalin cried out in pain, tears falling.
At this moment, Venti's voice echoed in the sky again: "Dvalin, it's very painful, isn't it? Bear with it a little longer, there's still one more wound."
Venti hadn't expected them to deal with one poisoned blood wound so quickly. It was truly splendid.
And Alex watched as the red tear-shaped Crystalize fell down. But he didn't pay attention to it at this time, after all, there was still one more ahead; if he went to pick it up, Dvalin would be lost.
Thinking about this, why did I even bother with the lyre of the heavens? The in-story playing of the lyre was just to summon Dvalin, right... "Oh my~ you little rascal~ your hands are even faster than mine!" Lumine's eyes went wide. She was at a huge loss; she didn't get this material that looked so 'high-end'.
The King of Scavenging, Lumine, began to feel uncomfortable.
But it was still alright, there was one more ahead, Lumine immediately said: "Give this one to me, you can't snatch it from me. One each is fair."
"Okay." Alex said, preparing to charge forward. The poisoned blood on the back was easy to deal with.
Now, the one on the neck was a bit tricky, very unfavorable for Baron Bunny's charge.
But it wasn't impossible to clear!
"Charge!" Alex said, taking Lumine with him to clear the second poisoned blood clot.
This time, Alex clearly felt that Lumine's Anemo projectiles were faster and more powerful.
Of course, those were her materials!
At this moment, it ascended rapidly, then began to drop straight down.
"Warning! Warning! The vehicle will collide with an obstacle in five seconds. Please take evasive action."
Baron Bunny's alert finished, and the countdown immediately began: "Five, four, three..."
And Alex, upon hearing Dvalin descending, realized something was wrong. Dvalin was trying to escape! Then below must be Stormterror's Lair!
So, it was obvious that the obstacle Baron Bunny was referring to was the Anemo barrier surrounding it.
"Lumine, quickly!!!" Alex said anxiously, simultaneously taking out two Swords. At this time, one Sword and one bow were not good to use.
Alex said, disengaging Baron Bunny. Baron Bunny transformed into a mecha and began punching the poisoned blood clot.
"Ah~~~~~" Paimon beside him screamed, "We're going to fall, we're going to fall!"
After screaming for two or three seconds, Paimon finally realized that she could fly.
It turned out she was clinging tightly to this puppet. This puppet was rapidly falling, following Alex.
But Paimon didn't let go at this moment, after all, Lumine was also rapidly falling with them.
Lumine didn't even open her Wind Glider, instead, she shot Anemo projectiles with one hand and pulled out her invincible dull blade with the other.
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